The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.

If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

Choose a self and stand by it.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task